Legal statecraft moves beyond lawfare, giving the U.S. a strategic instrument to shape the environment instead of playing defense.

Any attempt to authorize domestic military deployments by designating fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction rests on absurd legal theories.

Without clear definitions, commanders risk issuing unlawful orders, and troops risk obeying them.

The U.K. government’s latest attempt to access encrypted cloud backups could allow adversarial actors to gain access to sensitive data.

From extraterritorial arrest to head-of-state immunity, his case will test long-standing doctrines.

Recent U.S. actions in Venezuela underscore the president’s broad authority to use military force. But threats of a “second wave” may still run up against its limits.

Judge Paula Xinis’s opinion last month in the Abrego Garcia case is worth a deeper read.

A dispatch from the Jan. 5 hearing in the Southern District of New York.

The court’s ruling about who can oversee an obstruction of justice investigation into military officials has broad rule-of-law implications.

China’s military possesses some dangerous weapons, but its ability to outfight the U.S. military is seriously overstated.

Efforts to govern commercial spyware will continue yielding marginal progress unless three key problems are addressed.